1. La sardana : a dance from Catalunya Marina Márquez, Paola Vidovic, Sonia Escobar, Jessica Calvo & Xénia Giménez IES RUBIÓ I ORS L’Hospitalet de Llobregat

2. SARDANA The sardana is a type of circle dance typical of Catalonia, Spain.There are two main types, the original sardana curta (short sardana) and the more modern sardana llarga (long sardana), which is more popular. The music written for the dance is a sardana , and is usually divided in two sections ( tirades ), called curts and llargs.

3. The first tirada , the curts ("short steps"), of length between 20 and 50 measures, has a two-measure pattern and is danced with the arms down: (point-step-step-cross) to the right followed by (point-step-step-cross) to the left. The second tirada, the llargs ("long steps"), 50 - 100 measures, has a four-measure pattern and is danced with the arms up to shoulder level. The contrapunt , like the introit , is played by the flabiol (an instrument similar to a flaut), and is a two-measure break before the last repeat of the llargs . The cop final ("final beat") concludes the dance with a unified movement from all the dancers, still holding hands.

4. This way, the modern sardana dance has the following pattern, which shows all the repeats of the curts and llargs : 1. Introit 2. curts 3. curts 4. llargs 5. llargs 6. curts 7. llargs 8. contrapunt 9. llargs 10. cop final Curts Llargs The hands’ union